“Renewing the colonial pact” or conducting a witch hunt? : The administrative purge of former Algerian colonial agents upon Algerian independence (1962–1964)
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2022
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Baptiste Mollard, « “Renewing the colonial pact” or conducting a witch hunt? : The administrative purge of former Algerian colonial agents upon Algerian independence (1962–1964) », 20 & 21. Revue d'histoire, ID : 10670/1.a33725...
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As was the case in other African former colonies, Algeria’s independence led to changes with regard to the criteria used to recruit and hire civil servants. This article takes into consideration the thousands of Algerian public servants and agents who had worked for the French colonial administration and managed to hold on to their positions after 1962, as it became progressively more problematic to do so. Indeed, as the new national public administration was being established, acts of resistance or collaboration that had occurred during the war of independence increasingly made and unmade individual careers. After more than a century of colonial domination and eight years of war, Algeria experienced the most massive administrative purge of all the African countries that went through decolonization.
